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Occupy Wall Street organizers also contributed to a worker campaign at Hot & Crusty cafe in New York City, helping them obtain higher wages and the right to form a union by working with a worker center; [171] the collaboration between the striking workers and Occupy Wall Street protestors is documented in the 2014 film The Hand That Feeds.
Early promotion by the WikiLeaks Twitter and blog was reported [117] as being instrumental in the group's success. [117] It was renamed Occupy Wall Street after the idea publicized on an email list [118] on 13 July 2011 by Vancouver-based non-profit Canadian group Adbusters.
Occupy Charlottesville is a social movement in Charlottesville, Virginia, that began on October 15, 2011, [79] in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the rest of the Occupy movement. The downtown Lee Park encampment was taken down on November 30, 2011, when 18 members of the movement were arrested and charged with trespassing. [80]
The movement's lofty goals of creating a more equitable economy have gone unfulfilled, but the politics of "the 99 percent" have gained traction over the past decade.
Since Occupy Wall Street first set up camp in Zuccotti Park one year ago, it has helped to raise class consciousness among "the 99%" and given that silent majority a sense of empowerment. But a ...
For more coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests, see: The 3 Smartest Things I Heard at Occupy Wall Street. Occupying Wall Street Is Serious Business. I Am the 99%. How About You?
Protester on September 28, 2011. The following is a timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest which began on September 17, 2011 [1] on Wall Street, the financial district of New York City and included the occupation of Zuccotti Park, where protesters established a permanent encampment.
On Monday, the Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its first birthday amid a flurry of glitter and a spate of arrests. The attendance numbers are way down from last year's occupation, and the ...